Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlylewas a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher. Considered one of the most important social commentators of his time, he presented many lectures during his lifetime with certain acclaim in the Victorian era. One of those conferences resulted in his famous work On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History where he explains that the key role in history lies in the actions of the "Great Man", claiming that "History is nothing but the biography of the...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth4 December 1795
All great peoples are conservative.
With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.
Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
Song is the heroics of speech.
Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.
Variety is the condition of harmony.
Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
Let him who wants to move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.